Managing Humans  is a selection of the best essays from Michael Lopps web site, Rands In Repose. Drawing on Lopp's management experiences at Apple, Netscape, Symantec, and Borland, this book is full of stories based on companies in the Silicon Valley where people have been known to yell at each other. It is a place full of dysfunctional bright people who are in an incredible hurry to find the next big thing so they can strike it rich and then do it all over again. Among these people are managers, a strange breed of people who through a mystical organizational ritual have been given power over your future and your bank account. Whether you're an aspiring manager, a current manager, or just wondering what the heck a manager does all day, there is a story in this book that will speak to you. What you’ll learn What to do when people start yelling at each other  How to perform a diving save when the best engineer insists on resigning  How to say ''No'' to the person who signs your paycheck   Who this book is for  This book is designed for managers and would-be managers staring at the role of a manager wondering why they would ever leave the safe world of bits and bites for the messy world of managing humans. The book covers handling conflict, managing wildly differing personality types, infusing innovation into insane product schedules, and figuring out how to build a lasting and useful engineering culture.  Table of Contents DON’T BE A PRICK  MANAGERS ARE NOT EVIL  THE MONDAY FREAKOUT  AGENDA DETECTION  MANDATE DISSECTION  INFORMATION STARVATION  SUBTLETY, SUBTERFUGE, AND SILENCE  MANAGEMENTESE  TECHNICALITY  AVOIDING THE FEZ  YOUR RESIGNATION CHECKLIST  SAYING NO  1.0  TAKING TIME TO THINK  THE SOAK  MALCOLM EVENTS  CAPTURING CONTEXT  STATUS REPORTS 2.0  TRICKLE THEORY  A GLIMPSE AND A HOOK  NAILING THE PHONE SCREEN  NINETY DAYS  BELLWETHERS  NADD  A NERD IN A CAVE  MEETING CREATURES  INCREMENTALISTS AND COMPLETIONISTS  ORGANICS AND MECHANICS  INWARDS, OUTWARDS, AND HOLISTICS  FREE ELECTRONS  RULES FOR THE REORG  OFFSHORE RISK FACTOR  JOE  SECRET TITLES

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